The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-08

THE President has turned over to the
Secretary Of the Treasury an anonymous
letter and an inclosure of 500, which he
received from some person in Brooklyn,
N Y The writer says he owes this
amount to the Government for customs
duties.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York sent a
special message to the Legislature on the
3Oth on the subjecs of special legislation.
The message IS believed to be aimed at
the High License bill for New York and
Brooklyn. recently passed by the Assem-
bly,. 1t is now deemed ceSta IL that the
/ Governor VIII veto the bill should the
Senate pass it.
THE Lighthouse Board mas completed
the plan for lighting the Bartholdi statue
/ of Liberty on Bedloo's Island. A strong
/ lens will be placel in the torch, five ad1i-
| tional electric lights viii be placed around
/ the base, making thirteen of such lights
/ in all, and number of incandescent
] lights will be placed in the interior Of the
statue. The light to be placed in the
/ torch viii be one of the most powerful
/ fixed lights in the world.
! THE National Builders Association
! closed its business at Chicago on the 3lst
/ ana adjourned.
! The Illinois Legislature has been Off
! cially informed that the O.d Lincoln home
/ stead at Sprin gfield, Ill, Is not for sale.
! THE total debt OF the United States is
now Sl,70S 2J7, 5l3 Ga. 1t was decreased
! during March Sl2,S)S.451 II.
/ TwENTY-ThREE indictments have, 50 far,
! been returned by the Chicago special
grand jury Investigating the alleged Cook
County frauds.
THE Pennsylvania House of Representa-
/ tves, on the 3lst, passed IL re solution
/ protesting against IRISH. coercion and ex-
pressing sympathy for ireland.
/ A NEW postal convention has been ar
ranged between the UaitcI States and
Mexico Of great interest to Western mer-
! chants.
The sale of the Stewart statuary collec-
tion began in New York on the 3lst. The
bids for many choice works were so low
that they were rejected.
MEETINGS Of Conservative and Liberal
/ Union members Of the House of Comm ons
were held at London on the 3lst, at which
| it was determined to support the first
reading of the Irish Crimes bin.
Tue Interstate Commerce Commission
were sworn in at Washington on the 31st,
and organized by the election or Judge
| Cooley as chairman.
TIE Pittsburgh (Pa.) police are eudeav-
| oring to learn of the whereabouts or fate
of bride of three weeks, who has been
| missing since the recent wreck at Lee
| tOuia, o.
THERE wa an army of dead-head pas
| Stu26ES on GI6 trains OIL Jlc IGunSN id
/ COmpanys lines on the 3lst. The free
pass ''habiC expired on that system at
miduight of that day.
Born the oceln cable lines Of the Ben
nets-Mac Kay Gable Company are brok IN,
and the company is doing its business
over the French line. The breaks VIII
soon be repaired.
POLICE INSPECTOR SoMEFILLE and Con-
stable Garrett who were found guilty by
the coroner's juryfef numbering Hanlon,
| at YOughal, Ireland, have been released
on their own cOgnizlnc5s.
IT develops that the latest attempt on
the Cars life was made by army Off
Ger, who fired at but missed the monarch.
! THE comments of the London papers on
the new Land bill, and on the popular
feeling over proposed coercion lie Eislation,
are not very encouraging to the govern
ment side.
SENTIMENT in Canada is reported to be
crystalizing strongly against the govern
ment's Anti-Bait bill. 1t is claimed that
the measure viii prove more detrimental
to Canada than to Americans.
TIE coinage Of the mints during the
month of March was S5,l95, 906 Of whlcf
S3.O2O,5S) was in standard silver dollars.
THE Pension Office, on the Isl, issued
1,C0) pension certificates. This is said to
be the largest number ever issued in one
dav by the bureau.
THERE are now before the General Land
| Office 81, 105 cases awaiting adjudication
During the past week 1858 land patents
were approve J.
DURING the week ending March % -.
final homestead entries were approved by
the Commissioner of the General LanC
Office; 354 final timber culture entries; A.
final desert land entries, and 15l clsl
| timber land entries making a total o.
1,E6S land patents approved. There arc
IS 1O5 cases pending before the office.
ABOUT three hundred and fifty painters
comprising the Painters unions Of New
Haven, Conn, went out on strike on the
1st because of the refusal of the bosses Il
/ cOnCcde shorter hours of labor and pay
for overwork. The plumbers, gas anC
steam filters also went out. They mum
Der about fifty. Their demand is fo
shorter hours, pay for Overworls, and